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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed command question Post 302825997 by Parrakarry on Tuesday 25th of June 2013 03:36:46 PM
Old 06-25-2013
So is there a way to get awk to backslash escape the newline? Or am I just barking up the wrong tree?

sed.awk:

Code:
{
        x=1
        for ( i = 1; i <= NF; i++ )
        {
                if ( $i )
        {
                print "<entry name=\"KWValue"x"\">"$i"</entry>"
                x=x+1
        }
        }
}

And I just tried the obvious thing, which was adding a \\ to the sed.awk, causing the xml generated to look like

Code:
<entry name="KWValue1">20*</entry>\
<entry name="KWValue2">21*</entry>\
<entry name="KWValue3">22*</entry>\
<entry name="KWValue4">23*</entry>\
<entry name="KWValue5">24*</entry>\

Got a rather strange output from the sed command:

Code:
$ sed '/KWName/a\
> '"`awk -F, -f sed.awk sednumbers`"'' sedtest.txt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
<OBExport>
<section name="Query1">
<entry name="DocumentType">Document Type</entry>
<entry name="KWName1">Project Number</entry>
<entry name="KWName2">Org ID</entry>
<entry name="KWName3">Invoice Number</entry>
</section>
<section name="Query2">
<entry name="DocumentType">Invoices</entry>
<entry name="KWName1">Project Number</entry>
<entry name="KWName2">Org ID</entry>
<entry name="KWName3">Invoice Number</entry>
</section>
<section name="Query3">
<entry name="DocumentType">Requisitions</entry>
<entry name="KWName1">Invoice Number</entry>
</section>
<section name="Query4">
<entry name="DocumentType">Proposals</entry>
<entry name="KWName1">Project Number</entry>
<entry name="KWName2">Org ID</entry>
</section>
</OBExport>

No errors, but it also did nothing to my input.
Last edited by Parrakarry; 06-25-2013 at 04:55 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

today

mhc(1)							      General Commands Manual							    mhc(1)

NAME

       today - Show your today's schedules.

SYNOPSIS

       today [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the today commands.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       today is a program that show your schedules in MHC repository.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --format=FORMAT
	      change output format.  FORMAT is 'html' or 'ps.

       --category=CATEGORY
	      Pick only in CATEGORY. '!' and space separated multiple values are allowed.

       --date=strig[+n]
	      Set a period of date. String is one of these: today, tomorrow, sun ... sat, yyyymmdd, yyyymm.  yyyymm lists all days in  the  month.
	      list n+1 days of schedules if +n is given.  default value is 'today+0'

       --mail=ADDRESS
	      Send a e-mail to ADDRESS instead of listing to stdout

SEE ALSO

       adb2mhc(1), gemcal(1), mhc-scan(1), mhc2palm(1), palm2mhc(1), mhc(5).

AUTHOR

       This  program  was  written by Yoshinari Nomura <nom@quickhack.net> and this manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								    23 Jun 2000 							    mhc(1)
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